I wanted Toney to sign as i rated him very highly, but after seeing him in a Latics shirt for 6 months he seemed like another Gavin Massey - superb player on his day but his day barely comes around - so rare that you question if he's worth having around at all.
I don't think anyone was sad to see him go when he did as he was missing sitters and stopped winning headers - he looked devoid of confidence and like his heart wasn't in it.
When he came back to play against us for Scunthorpe he looked like the player i thought we were getting but rarely saw. You could why Peterborough wanted him - if we hadn't just sent him back i'd have said we should've gone for him based on his performances for Scunthorpe. He never looked back from there, but i'm not sure what the issue was with us - if Cook's coaching wasn't right for him, the coaching at another club turned him around, if he upped his game or something else - but i don't think he'd have done what he went on to do if he stayed.
There are some players we missed the boat on badly, but i don't really look at Toney like that - as for whatever reason it just didn't work. We've had plenty go the other way like Dan Burn - a laughing stock at Fulham, Palacios did nothing at Birmingham, Nick Powell offered nothing at Hull, Jason Roberts flopped in the prem for WBS and Pompey, etc - so it's just one of those things.